DAN SIMON

Official website for In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process (ISBN-13: 978-0674046153), a new book from author Dan Simon and published by Harvard University Press. In this sweeping review of psychological research, Dan Simon shows how flawed investigations can produce erroneous evidence and why well-meaning juries send innocent people to prison and set the guilty free. Dan Simon is Professor of Law and Psychology at the USC Gould School of Law/University of Southern California... In this unique and timely book, Dan Simon brings together an enormous body of social science research to argue compellingly that even when everyone is acting in good faith, we cannot count on the accuracy of witnesses, confessions, police and prosecutorial charging decisions, jury verdicts, and appellate court decisions. At each step of the criminal justice process, common errors in perception, memory, and judgment, often caused by unrecognized bias, can distort legal outcomes. Everyone..